Stuart Thomson is the Founder, Director, and Principal Researcher at the Gaia Research Institute, founded in 1990 and situated at the Garden of Eden, between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, where he resides and works with his wife Lettie, who runs their personal care business, Gaia Organics, the proceeds of which fund the independent non-profit activities of the Institute. Stuart has been an independent holistic health researcher, virtually full-time for two decades, focusing mainly on prevention and treatment of cancer and AIDS as well as other conditions considered incurable. This site is not about natural medicine, but rather seeks to go beyond medicine, to focus on "health optimisation", which makes most medicine redundant.

Concurrently, but more recently and with greater urgency, our research and lobbying has focused on significant unacknowledged threats to the South African public's health in as far as these masquerade as health solutions, such as homoeopathic medicines, which totally lack efficacy, and also Traditional African Medicines, which kill several thousands of our citizens unnecessarily every year, and also pseudo-tradional medicines such as Sutherlandia, which is anticipated to actively feed the tuberculosis epidemic devastating sub-Sarahan Africa, as well as hazardous Complimentary Medicines, such as so called "Natural" topical Progesterone products, and also iatrogenic orthodox medicines toxicity, all of which are the responsibility of the Medicines Control Council, who stand accused, by the Director of the Gaia Research Institute, as culpable of gross dereliction of their statutory duty to protect the public from medicines, but who instead, squander strained State resources on financially vested interest arrangements with industry groups and embark on pathetic petty witchhunts of opponents of their ideological doctrine and perverse agendas in service of same.

We are not only what we eat and think, but also what we wear and otherwise put into contact with our bodies, including environmental influences and especially personal care products, which latter may be as crucial as what we ingest, since sublingual and dermally absorbed substances are at a disadvantage, in that they are not monitored and oxidatively regulated by the liver, as in the case of  intestinally absorbed substances, and hence our focus on benign, yet effective natural formulated personal care products, which also serve as our primary funding arm, yet does not in any way subtract from excellent value for money, due to considerable savings in terms of foreign exchange, which usually elevate prices of products of this nature at least some ten-fold.     

Stuart has over twenty years of full-time research, developed a scientific paradigm, involving the optimization of health as a logical viable alternative to treating symptoms, whether by natural or allopathic medicine. By way of example, infections and degenerative conditions are resolved by correcting the milieu under which they develop, thereby addressing causal factors and fundamentally and sustainably optimizing the innate homoeostatic mechanisms, rather than merely attempting to manipulate them through exclusive management with medicines, be they synthesized allopathics or even herbals, high dosage nutrients, oxidative therapies, etc, which should follow, rather than precede the fundamentals, if indeed they are still necessary after a reasonable trial attempt at the health optimisation strategy. 

Stuart practices and recommends no medicine, used to, but no longer encourages previously free telephonic and on-site (but not e-mail or written correspondence) consultations to anyone wishing to attempt to truly regain their health through adherence to nature’s laws, since Gaia's resources are being redirected to consumer protection as a primary focus. Stuart and Lettie are committed vegetarians, and Stuart an animal rights campaigner and environmentalist, and with Lettie, a student of and aspirant to higher human consciousness. He believes that the majority of the human race at this stage of its development represents a cancer within the body of Gaia, the living planet. Stuart believes that it is possible for individuals to revert from malignant to benign status, even near the end of life, but only by walking back to the Garden of Eden to live as close to the original blue-print of the Almighty as is possible under modern and personal conditions. These principles are shared with you and scientifically verified on this site.

Stuart spends what little spare time he has, listening to early 1970’s era blues, rock and progressive jazz music and watching the international grand prix motorcycling championships. Lettie and Stuart enjoy meditating and walking in the Garden of Eden forests, which surround their home and Institute. Stuart is also the Founder and National Co-ordinator of PHARMAPACT, the Peoples Health Alliance Rejecting Medical Authoritarianism, Prejudice And Conspiratorial Tyranny, which lobbies in support of natural health freedom, opposes regulatory double-standards, exposes medical iatrogenics and natural health quackery, which work is available here.

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